Charles Mason

Galerie Cortex Athletico

Charles Mason deploys a deceptively minimal approach using, among other materials, ceramic tiles, pieces of furniture, electrical tape and concrete, familiar things that fabricate and furnish our daily life, which he combines to create seductive sculptures.

Objects that should be defined by a proper form and a proper use, here, Mason misuses, the resulting sculptures; formal, subtle and anti-authoritative perform a re-employment of recovered elements evoking unexpected emotions. The finished works hint at their former lives as well as proposing new ones, replete with psychological implications and open to narrative, they probe the world in which they find themselves – like interventions in the urban fabric of the overlooked and undervalued.

" The works investigate the way in which we find ourselves indexed to the material world. As active creatures in a physical world we can vacillate between wanting to lose ourselves, both literally and mentally, and wanting to locate or find ourselves - as if who we are is something that we’re never fully in possession of. Mason’s sculptures actively play on these sets of contradictory impulses that are indicative of inquisitiveness and the need for security, two mutually dependent states that rarely exist in harmony with one another."

(Simon Wallis)

works in the exhibition:

hung - up 2007 | brace 2007| prop 2007 | corner drawing 2007| dado 2007| untitled 2007